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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:35PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:07:50AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote:
> > Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds
> > since the Unix epoch?  date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the
> > converse with the -r switch:
> > 
> > [6:05:51] munk@users /home/munk# date -r "1064293551"
> > Tue Sep 23 06:05:51 BST 2003
> > 
> > Just curious - I ended up making a simple C app that does the job.
> 
> This works for me:
> 
>     ~,9:57pm> date '+%s'
Thanks guys, this was the one I was after :)


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